Date Company Accusation City / Area / Country Source Tags Media
26/08/2013
(Supplier Of Old Navy)
(Supplier Of Gap)
Investigation in unregulated subcontracting vendors finds multiple children manufacturing clothes. Some identified aged 12 and 14. Children earned as low as $32/month.BangladeshAl JazeeraChild Labor, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard
18/09/2006AppleLaboratory test reveals highest level of a type of toxic flame retardant, tetrabromobisphenol A, in Apple's MacBooks.DenmarkGreenpeaceNegligence
18/09/2006Hewlett-Packard (HP)Laboratory tests reveal high levels of toxic chemical decaBDE in HP laptops, despite HP claims of having removed decaBDE from its products years ago.DenmarkGreenpeaceConsumer Deception, Negligence
18/08/2006Foxconn Technology Group
(Supplier Of Apple)
Apple says report of labour conditions at unnamed iPod plant found workers did more than 60 hours a week a third of the time and worked more than six consecutive days 25% of the time. [Report criticised by a leading international trade union organisation for not being independently verified.]ChinaBBCExcessive Work Hours
26/06/2006Foxconn Technology Group
(Supplier Of Apple)
Foxconn admits that their employees work about 80 extra hours each month, which is against the law in China.ChinaChina CSRExcessive Work Hours
11/06/2006Foxconn Technology Group
(Supplier Of Apple)
Newspaper reports that workers producing iPods receive as little as £27 a month, doing 15-hour shifts.Longhua, Shenzhen, Guangdong, ChinaBBCExcessive Work Hours, Non-Living Wage
31/03/2008
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01/03/2008
Taiway Sports LTD
(Part Of Taiwan Diamond Group)
(Suppliers Of Kering)
(Supplier Of Puma)
Low wages,  workhours between 10 to 12 hours/day, 62.5 hour workweeks during peak season among other violations. Workers expressed that they are "treated as pigs".Dongguan, Guangdong, ChinaChina Labor WatchDiscrimination, Excessive Work Hours, Forced Overtime, Non-Living Wage, Occupational Hazard, Unpaid Overtime
16/09/2014
(Shell (Royal Dutch Shell))
(Motiva Enterprises)
Shell & Motiva ordered to compensate 2,677 employees for unpaid overtime back wages in 8 facilities - $4,470,764.United StatesUS Department of LaborUnpaid Overtime
12/05/2016Shell (Royal Dutch Shell)Around 2,000 barrels worth of oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, near Shell's Brutus platformPort Fourchon, LA, United StatesThe GuardianPollution
17/08/2015
(Bayer)
(Arkema)
(FMC Corporation)
(Honeywell)
(Shell (Royal Dutch Shell))
(Rhône-Poulenc)
(Rohm and Haas)
(Occidental Petroleum Corporation)
(Olin Corporation)
(Lebanon Seaboard)
(Union Carbide)
(21st Century Fox)
(Chemours)
(Syngenta)
16 companies ordered to clean up contaminated soil from pesticides and heavy metals at Superfund site operating from early 1930's until mid 1980's - cleanup costs $14.3 million & $945,000 past costs and future oversight.Hagerstown, MD, United StatesUS Environmental Protection AgencyPollution